I love this cosplayer’s ingenuity. He’s not just dressed up as Game of Thrones’ Renly “Gay King” Baratheon, he’s dressed as Renly “Just About to be Dead King” Baratheon!
In honour of one of the nicer kings in Westeros, here’s a video tribute to Renly, set to the Electric Six single, Gay Bar:
That’s right, he voted against the funding, rationalizing it as saving taxpayers’ money, despite the fact that programs like TAVIS have had quite a bit of success, bringing down Accordion City’s murder rate to an all time low over the past few years. I get the feeling that he’s going to approve even heftier spending, but this time on breaking skulls rather than prevention.
It’s just another case of “penny wise, pound foolish” disguised as fiscal conservatism, and it’s not that different from the sort of thing described in this earlier post.
U.S. News and World Report reports that Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist formerly with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, received the following email from a conservative blogger on July 9, 2012:
Dear Ms. Shultz,
We are doing an expose on journalists in the elite media who socialize with elected officials they are assigned to cover. We have found numerous photos of you with Sen. Sherrod Brown. In one of them, you appear to be hugging him.
Care to comment?
Here’s her response, dated July 10, 2012:
Dear Mr. [Name Deleted]:
I am surprised you did not find a photo of me kissing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown so hard he passes out from lack of oxygen. He’s really cute.
He’s also my husband.
You know that, right?
You can find the exchange on her Facebook page. She has yet to receive a response.
Ms. Schultz seems to have a fair bit of journalistic integrity. According to U.S. News and World Report, she left the Cleveland Plain Dealer when it “become painfully clear that my independence, professionally and personally, is possible only if I’m no longer writing for the newspaper that covers my husband’s senate race on a daily basis.”
Also notable is the fact that she hasn’t named the blogger. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports:
Schultz said this morning that she hasn’t named the blogger because she wants him to “pick better company and do better journalism.”
“I don’t want to be a bully,” she said in a telephone interview. “I can say he was working for one of the larger conservative blogs, but that his name is not in the staff directory. Maybe he’s an intern, maybe an editor was playing a joke on him or maybe he was trying to get a reaction out of me.
Integrity and grace. Thanks for setting an example, Ms. Schultz!
I would’ve appreciated a little more desk space for note-taking back during my university days. Of course, that was when laptop computers were a rarity and their battery life left much to be desired.
These days, I do my note-taking with an iPad and a camera or iPhone (to take pictures of any slides or diagrams), and they don’t require so much room. Whenever I’ve presented to university/college students, most of them appear to be doing the same.
Regular readers of The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century and my “On High Rotation” posts will know that I’m a fan of synthpop and electronica. It can’t be helped — maybe it’s because I’m a techie, maybe it’s because I was a synth player in a former life (and actually, I still am).
One of the current electronic bands that I rather like is Digitalism, a German duo who’ve crafted some rather enjoyable tunes such as Circles and one of my favourite electronic tracks of this decade, Forrest Gump.
Digitalism often collaborate with other DJs, and their latest such pairing is with DJ-Kicks on a new compilation, unsurprisingly titled Digitalism: DJ-Kicks. It’s a collection of DJ-Kicks’ work, remixed by Digitalism, and of the tracks is Falling, which itself is a Digitalism track. That’s right, this is Digitalism remixing a DJ-Kicks reworking of their own work. There’s a lot of this snake-eating-its-own-tail thing going on in remix culture.
Here’s the video for Digitalism/DJ-Kicks/Digitalism’s Falling, which overlays the tune with clips from the Belgian toddler TV show Tik Tak, the spiritual predecessor to all those Baby Einstein videos.
Click the photo to see the original.
I’ve said “Not Today” to iTunes Update a few times myself.
In fact, some of us have season passes.